Mop pail



A ril 29, 1924.

1,492,240 C. E. BURKE MOP PAIL Filed Nov. 7, 1919 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 WMWJ April 29, 1924. 1,492,240

C. E. BURKE MOP PAIL Filed Nov. 7. 1919 2 Sheets-Shet -2 l6 f- 3 a0 I l9 I7 Z0 zww m Patented Apr. 29, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT"OFF,ICE.

CLATON E. BURKE, F MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO B. BQSIECIAL TY COM- PANY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION OF MINNESOTA.

vror PAIL.

Application filed November 7, 1919. Serial No. 336,382.

'1 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLATON E. BURKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mop Pails; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame- My present invention relates to mop wringer pails and is in the nature of a modification of, or improvement on the pail disclosed and claimed in my pending application S. N. 231,168 filed April 27, 1918.

Generally stated, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views. Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is plan view of the improved pail;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same;

Fig. 3 is a plan view showing a detachable anchoring rim and certain parts that are attached thereto and are removable therewith, the same being removed from the pail; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view but with some parts sectioned showing an outside anchoring band and certain parts attached thereto, some of the parts being in horizontal section.

The pail 5, which is preferably of sheet metal construction, is of the ordinary cylindrical form, except that it is provided near its bottom with outstanding vertically spaced beads 6 that afford a seat for an outside anchoring band 7. This anchoring band 7 is preferably a flat metal hoop open at one point and having at its adjacent ends outstanding ears 8 through which is passed a. nut-equipped bolt 9 to tightly clamp the said band onto the pail. This anchoring band 7 is provided with outstanding floor-engaging foot brackets 10 and, preferably also, has inturned angle brackets 11, the ends of which extend under the bottom of the pail.

At its opposite sides, the anchoring band 7 is provided with outstanding ears 12 and outstanding studs 13, which latter project through said ears. The ends of a bail-like foot treadle 14 are pivoted on the stud 13 pressed over the said stud, as shown best in Figs. 2 and 4. The pail is shown as provided with a carrying bail 15 pivoted to ears 16 that are secured to the opposite sides of an anchoring rim 17. This rim 17, shown as detached in Fig. 3, andapplied in Figs. 1 and 2, fits closely within the upper portion of a pail and is detachably secured thereto by a plurality of small nut-equipped'bolts 18 passed through the pail and rim.

Close to what may be treated as the back of the pail, the anchoring rim 17 is provided with rigidly secured, upwardly projecting bearing ears or lugs 19 in which the trunnions 20 of a relatively local and relatively short squeezing roller 21 are journaled. Mop-guiding brackets 22 are secured to the interior of the anchoring rim 17 and are provided with parallel portions that extend under the ends of the roller 21 and guide the mop thereto and prevent the mop from being wound around the trunnion-equipped ends of the said roller.

A movable and relatively long squeezing roller 23 is provided at its ends with trunnions 24 that are journaled in the upper ends of laterally spaced pairs of links 25 and 26. At their lower ends, the links 25, which, of course, are outside of the pail, are pivoted to the sides of the yoke-like foot treadle 14, while the lower ends of the links .26 are pivoted to the opposite sides of the which the mop may be freely passed into the pail to a position between the spacing rollers, or from which it may be withdrawn, when not subject to the rollers.

When the mop is between the rollers and in the water contained in the pail and the treadle 14 is then stepped upon, the roller 23 will be forced toward the roller 21, and as the mop is carried to the roller 21, it will be laterally contracted between the parallel portions of the guide brackets 22. Then while the pressure of the rollers is applied to the mop, the mop can be drawn upward between the rollers; and in this drawing action the foot brackets 10 can be stepped on to hold the pail. down'upon thefloor and to arrangement described permits eiiicient and cheap construction in which all of the parts may be quickly and easily assembled.

What I claim is:

1. The combination with a pail having spaced beads adjacent the bottom thereof. of an anchoring band applied around said pail between said beads above the bottom thereof means for frictionally clamping said band around the pail, a treadle pivoted to said anchoring band, and a pair of squeezingrollers one supported by the pail in a relatively a )osi ion anc ie 0 ier connee er; 0 ant 100 l t ltl tl t H l arranged to be moved by said treadle.

erating with said local roller.

3. A mop pail having a removable interiorly secured circular band carrying a fixedly mounted squeezing roller, mop guiding means and a pail carrying bail, and a removably secured: exterior circular bandat the bottom thereof carrying a movable squeezing roller and treadle and link operating' means for the same.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

oriA'roN BURKE. W'itnesses v EVA E; Kome, HARRY D. KILGON. 

